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Summary (III)

Peripheral Au+Au collisions:
Behave effectively as p+p collisions plus Ncoll scaling (expected pQCD behaviour) for all species and for all observables !

d+Au collisions:

No suppression observed in min. bias d+Au (and p+Au) reactions.
Cronin-like enhancement for p0 (small) and h± (larger).
Opposite behaviour of the centrality dependence of high pT production compared to Au+Au.
No “cold” nuclear matter effects (strong saturation of nuclear PDFs) seem to explain high pT Au+Au suppression.

Data vs. theory:

pQCD-based final-state parton energy loss models (“QGP” models) reproduce more aspects of the data (Au+Au, d+Au) than other approaches.
Non negligible “leftovers” lacking fully consistent explanation.

(Personal) Corollary: “We've got ~1/3 of QGP evidence at RHIC. Let's wait (not very long !) for the J/ψ and the photons ...”

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